Catholic Church / en The Heretic Scribbler of Ï㽶ֱ²¥ MS 319 /node/2594 The Heretic Scribbler of Ï㽶ֱ²¥ MS 319 Antje G. Frotscher Issue number (2022): 18 Notes category Library Manuscripts MS 319 John Walton Boethius De consolatione philosophiae Thomas Philpott John Philpott Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church Protestant Reformation

Ï㽶ֱ²¥ MS 319 is one of only twenty extant copies of John Walton’s Middle English verse translation of Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae. It is one of a group of five manuscripts recorded as bequeathed to the college by one Thomas Philpott. There are many scribbles in the margins of the manuscript. What do they convey, and who might have written them?

 

New College Library, Oxford, MS 319, f. 2r

 

New College Library and Archives, Oxford
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The Authorship of Ï㽶ֱ²¥ MS 303 /node/2216 The Authorship of Ï㽶ֱ²¥ MS 303 Alison Shell Issue number (2021): 15 Notes category Thomas Neal Library Manuscripts MS 303 Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church

          Ffyve hundreth, eight tymes tenn yn all.
          If ye can ioyne to gether well,
          By addyng thereto poynts vocall,
          The Authours name ye then ca[n] tell.

 

This provocative verse appears in Ï㽶ֱ²¥ MS 303, a book of prose and poetry written by an Elizabethan Catholic.  

 

New College Library, Oxford, BT1.4.6, f. 81r

 

New College Library and Archives, Oxford
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The Papists of Ï㽶ֱ²¥: I /node/2145 The Papists of Ï㽶ֱ²¥: I Katie McKeogh Issue number (2020): 14 Notes category Ï㽶ֱ²¥ history Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church Reformation Protestant Reformation 16thC history

In her first months as queen, the last surviving child of the Tudor dynasty passed the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity, the legislation now known as the Elizabethan religious settlement (1559).  But who were the Catholics associated with Ï㽶ֱ²¥ during the Reformation period?—the Elizabethan exiles, musicians, university men, deprived clergy, and lawmen?

 

Thomas Martin, Historica descriptio complectens vitam . . .  (London, 1597)
Pen-and-ink drawing of William of Wykeham inserted before title page
New College Library, Oxford, BT1.132.17

 
New College Library and Archives, Oxford
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The Long Reach of Ï㽶ֱ²¥â€™s Catholic Apologists /node/2143 The Long Reach of Ï㽶ֱ²¥â€™s Catholic Apologists Robert Gullifer Issue number (2020): 14 Notes category Library Manuscripts MS 311a MS 311b Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church Nicholas Harpsfield Nicholas Sander 16thC history

In the immediate wake of Henry VIII’s act of supremacy, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ was notable among the Oxford colleges for the continuing strength and quality of its humanist Catholic apologists.  By the early years of Elizabeth I’s reign, most of these had gone abroad or had been imprisoned, and with them went a remarkable tradition of scholarship . . . 

 

New College Library, Oxford, MS 311B

 

New College Library and Archives, Oxford
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Thomas Neal (c. 1519–c. 1590): Catholic, Priest, Scholar /node/2142 Thomas Neal (c. 1519–c. 1590): Catholic, Priest, Scholar Thomas Neal Issue number (2020): 14 Notes category Thomas Neal Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church 16thC history Queen Elizabeth I

On 2 September 1566 Thomas Neal—Catholic, Hebraist, and Ï㽶ֱ²¥, Oxford fellow—was presented to Elizabeth I during her six-day visit to Oxford.  Neal achieved many things in his life as a scholar. But most impressively of all, however, he remained faithful to his vocation as a Catholic priest in the most turbulent and dangerous times.

 

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I [detail], oil on panel (c. 1575)
By an unknown continental artist
NPG 2082 © National Portrait Gallery

 

National Portrait Gallery, London
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Ï㽶ֱ²¥ and the Reformation /node/1641 Ï㽶ֱ²¥ and the Reformation David Parrott Issue number (2018): 09 Notes category Ï㽶ֱ²¥ history 16thC history Reformation Protestant Reformation Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church Martin Luther

In 2017 we commemorated the fifth centenary of the protestant reformation—500 years since Martin Luther publicized his Ninety-Five Theses. In England, of course, the timing and form of the reformation was directly shaped by the anxieties and ambitions of one man: King Henry VIII. To one Ï㽶ֱ²¥ man—William Warham, who was created a fellow of college in 1475—this was an issue that would define the last years of his career.

 

A 1527 portrait [detail] of William Warham (1450?–1532), by Hans Holbein the Younger

 

 
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